Jammu, Apr 12: Provincial President Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (JKNC) Jammu Rattan Lal Gupta has lamented that the incumbent Govt has miserably failed on all fronts with youth despite being the future of the nation have been at the receiving end under the present regime.
Addressing a workers convention at Sher-e-Kashmir Bhawan, Gupta said that the unemployment among the youth has crossed all limits and the height of the things is that the Govt is misleading the people by issuing fudged reports to show that unemployment rate has come down in J&K.
The senior NC leader said youth is the backbone of the society and the present situation is a matter of serious concern as the Govt has no policy for the youth as a result of which unemployment in Jammu and Kashmir is at peak.
He said that the government of J&K must come clear on the gigantic difference between the unemployment rate data announced by it recently and the one made public by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE).
The Provincial President accused the Govt of fudging of actual data to hide its failure on the front. He said that there is unbelievable difference between the two figures as according to the CMIE the unemployment rate in J&K in March was over 23 percent but the reports published in media giving government data of the same entity have reported improvement from 6.7 percent in 2019-20 to 5.2 percent in 2021-22 quoting Economic Survey Report 2022-23.
He asked the government to come clean over the controversial figures reflected by it.
